Month: October 2015

At 21, I remember thinking, “Now, I’m free from the worry of getting into trouble for having a glass of champagne at a wedding.” I felt victorious for skirting any potential recriminations for drinking when it wasn’t legal to do so, although back in those days, the consequences for underage drinking didn’t feel nearly as […]

Remember those long-ago days when hotels didn’t have hair dryers? I do. Lugging them around was a pain. Internationally, it was worse stuffing converters in your tennis shoes to save packing space. Time marches on, and what I find works best for me now is a flat iron. Because hair is the last thing you […]

Marriott’s a big name, a brand many people are comfortable with. I am not. Here’s why: Their employees are not empowered to use common sense when to do so trumps rules and regulations. For example, during a recent stay over New Year’s eve in Ft. Lauderdale, I was about to turn in early when the […]

Kudos to Harvard for asking a provacative question and delivering an even more compelling answer. The question I reference was posed six years ago by three B-school professors among them Rosabeth Moss Kanter, ” How might the mission of a university change in the 21st century?” The answer is even better than the question, “Throw […]